Ash tray



y 1940- R. N. BAYLIS 2.209,1o5

ASH TRAY Filed April 26, 1939 INVENTOR 1906667/1! 8471/5 ATTORNEYS Patented July 23, 1940 2,209,105

UNlTEl) STATES PATENT om s i ASH TRAY Robert N. Baylis, Caldwell, N. J., assignor to Smokador Manufacturing Co., Inc., Bloomfield, N. J a corporation of Delaware Application April 26, 1939, Serial No. 270,102

4 Claims. (Cl. 131-240) This invention relates to certain improvements arms 5-5' are also substantially parallel and in ash trays and receptacles. somewhat closer together than the sides of the The object is to provide a simple and effective arms 5-5, the spacing being such as to safely supholder or rest for cigars or cigarets, which rest port a lighted cigaret lengthwise thereon with 5 also functions as a handle to lift the receptacle the lighted end near the center of the tray. Just 5 and also as a guard or screen to prevent improper inside the rim of the tray I provide a recessed waste material, such as paper, from being deportion, preferably formed by an annular groove posited in the tray and plugging up the discharge 6 facing inwardly or toward the center of said opening leading from said tray to the waste retray and of a size to snugly receive the wire bends ceptacle proper on which the tray is mounted. at the ends of the lobes --5. The length of the 10 In th drawing arms 55 is such that they may be sprung into Fi 1 i a la i w; d said recessed portion of the tray by a slight dei 2 is Side 1 ti pa -fly i ti of formation of the screen, so that the inherent rethe parts shown in Fig. 1, including a portion of siheney 0f e Wire y be relied up n o firmly. th waste receptacle on which t tray i yet detachably, connect the screen to said tray. t This will permit the screen to be engaged by the I represents the upper part of a, waste recepfingers and used as a handle to lift the tray and tacle for containing smokers waste, such as ashes, receptacle. The intermediate lobes or arms cigaret and cigar butts and the like. 2 reprere made Shorter than the lobes or arms sents a tray which is dished and provided with a 80 that in pp y the S ee it requires 20 central discharge passage 3, through which h the latter y b engaged With e tray, smokers waste is designed to pass on its way to thus. Simplifying e pe ation. This construction the receptacle 1. For the effective use of the tray also assures. in the preferred rm sh w a it is essential that this aperture shall be kept open uniformly Spacedthree-peint engagement o the and hence it is desirable to provide means to pre- Screen With the tray. whereby the Screen y e 25 vent papers, such as cigaret wrappers, from being easily removed or freed y Collapsing t e Screen deposited in the tray proper so as to cover or plug only sufficiently to dislodge the d of o y o e of the outlet 3. In the particular instance shown the lobes from the groove Whereupen t e the receptacle 2 is detachably connected to the Screen may he removed by merely t g he lower side of the tray by any suitable means, such Same By having the ends of the Wire abut at the 30 as a Screw thread connection 4 The present outer end of one of the lobes 5 the walls of the invention is confined to the guard or screen means groove Will prevent Said ds from slipping by and this, in its preferred form, is so constructed each other- In practice t e spaces between'the t t t, t only acts as a screen but also as a screen lobes are not large enough to permit pieces handle to permit theassembled receptacleand tray of pap r, t large t pass freely th u the 35 to be lifted, and also as an efiicient support or Sage 3 and carelessly p s ed o the screen, rest for lighted cigars or cigarets, holding them in from entering the y d outlet. such a position over the tray that they will not From the foregoing it Will be n t at the drop on t figor when burned k guard described functions not only as a screen 40 The guard is shown in t drawing in t prefor the tray but also as a handle and also as a 40 ferred form and is made of a single piece of wire, most effective rest fOr lighted cigarette and C gars, bent into a sort of star-shaped formation so as holding latter radially 0f the y nt nd to provide a plurality of radially arranged looped so far in toward the center that danger of their arms or lobes 55 and 5'-5' radiating from an falling off onto the floor or floor covering is pracopen center. The ends of this wire meet at the tically eliminated. 45

outer bend of one of the lobes or arms 5. The I claim: sides of each lobe 5 are preferably about parallel 1. An ash tray having a circumferentially exto each other and spaced apart sufliciently to pertending generally inwardly opening annular mit a lighted cigar to be safely rested lengthwise groove therein near the outer rim, and a generthereon above and radially of the dished portion ally radially compressible screen formed of bent 50 of the tray, so that ashes dropping therefrom will wire and providing a plurality of radially extendfall directly into or close to the discharge outlet 3. ing arms of different lengths for supporting cigars The other lobes or arms 5'-5' are somewhat and cigarets, the ends of the longer arms fitting shorter than the lobes 5-5 and are positioned into said groove for resiliently holding said screen 65 between the latter. The sides of each of these on said tray against displacement.

2. An ash tray, and a screen, said screen comprising a single length of wire bent into the form of a plurality of radially arranged holding lobes and a plurality of shorter intermediate screening lobes, said wire being resilient, whereby said ,screen may be contracted in a radial direction,

and said tray having holding means for engagement by said'holding lobes when said screen is expanded for holding said screen in place.

3. An ash tray, a screen therefor comprising a length of wire bent to form a plurality of radially arranged screening and holding lobes and a p1u-' rality of shorter intermediate screening lobes;

said wire being resilient whereby said screen may be bodily contracted in a radial direction,- said tray having holding means for engagement bythe ends of said first mentioned lobes when said screen is expanded, the sides of said lobes being so spaced as to sup ort cigars or cigaret's longitudinally thereon from the tray edge and toward the center thereof.

4. A screen for an ash tray of the type having inwardly directed screen holding means adjacent its upper inner edge, said screen comprising a wire bent to form a plurality of radially extending lobes of different lengths, the sides of certain of said lobes being spaced sufficiently to support lobes to engage with said tray holding means to hold the screen in place.

ROBERT N. BAYLIS. 

